IBM Bails Out of the Hard Drive Market 351
DJ STORM writes: "IBM has decided to exit the hard drive market citing the market has become too competitive.They plan to sell 70% of the their HD business to Hitachi. The new company name is unknown.
One has to wonder if this has anything to do with IBM's troubled Deskstar GXP series." IBM will still have part ownership of the resulting venture, but it sounds like no more Deskstars. Update: 04/17 16:33 GMT by T : You may also find interesting some older posts about IBM's work on increasing hard drive storage (1, 2, 3); hopefully, the new company will continue that R&D effort.
Not quite out... (Score:5, Funny)
Competitive = the market was faster... (Score:2, Funny)
And so the empire... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:They were the real competitors (Score:3, Funny)
If we edit out the "better/faster/" we get "bigger/smaller" hard drives. I do know what you mean, but I just think there must be a better way of saying, "My new IBM hard drive is bigger than my old drive. It is also smaller than my old drive."
Now if I could just get a faster/slower car.
Show Me the Drives (Score:3, Funny)
Maybe they could call the company (Score:5, Funny)
Apr 17 11:15:12 ben kernel: hdb: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=11288143, sector=11288080
Re:Not quite out... (Score:2, Funny)
Kind of like how
Re:deskstar? I doubt it (Score:5, Funny)
The point at which you are making 50 cents per drive?
The real problem (Score:1, Funny)
IBM DYKA
It's like being taunted by maxtor users every time you boot. Berating customers is no way to compete.